Sentences with phrase «brilliant actors in this film»

It might be difficult to make Ashraf Barhom a household name in the states, but this performance stands out among the brilliant actors in this film.

Not exact matches

Casey Affleck is a damn good actor — his performance in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is brilliant — and I can't wait to see him take his his talents behind a film that is rooted in real - life terror.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

The sad death of brilliant Australian actor Heath Ledger left many a film fan in a state of shock.

Zamperini died earlier this year and is played by former Skins actor, Jack O'Connell, who was brilliant in the supremely suspenseful thriller»71 earlier this year, another film worth watching if you have the time this Christmas.

Playing a Danish officer stationed in Argentina circa 1880, Viggo Mortensen has the perfect comportment of a civilized military man; as the film goes on and his character is forced to wander through the wilds in search of his disappeared daughter, this brilliant actor gets to shows off his vast vocabulary of body language, from urgent, purposeful striding to weary, wary resignation.

It's actually astonishing that we not only have great actors nailing tricky scenes, and really some stunning, winding camerawork to go with it, but such things as the weaving in of special effects and the utter lack of capturing any of the off - screen crew members who surely must have been around helping with the shoot (that we never see anything we shouldn't in any of the many on - screen mirrors is quite astonishing) only makes this one of the more brilliant efforts at shooting a seamless film since the first in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.

Earlier this year, actor Julianne Moore and director Todd Haynes sat down to have an in - depth conversation for a supplement on our new release of their brilliant 1995 film Safe.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

I read and read and kept thinking «Uh hello... James McAvoy, brilliant stage and film actor, plays THE MAN HIMSELF, Victor Frankenstein, but you mention a bunch of Sherlock actors and put his name in «details», like the insignificant actor he must be to Time Out?»

A brilliant actor giving a wonderful performance in a grostesque and stupid, stupid, stupid film.

Of course, most of the accolades will more rightfully go to the main actors, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts (who also receive producer credits), for their brilliant portrayals of two complex, flawed characters who must progress and mature quite substantially, but naturally, in the course of this two hour film.

The reason I like the film doesn't stem from the usual things — I am not a fan of any of the actors (except Jackie Chan, The Big Brawl), I don't think it's particularly brilliant in the writing or direction department, and the car chases are certainly not particularly appealing to me.

Kellan Lutz has already proven himself to be a really terrible actor with the «Twilight» films, and not much seems to have changed in that department, but whoever started the rumor linking the actor with America's favorite media obsession (Miley Cyrus) only weeks before the movie's release was a brilliant marketing ploy.

One such film in particular is Xavier Beauvois» «La Rançon de la Gloire» a film about a cash - struck man in 1970s Europe who has been recently released from prison and gets the brilliant idea to kidnap the corpse of revered comedic actor Charlie Chaplin in order to sell it back to his family for a hefty ransom.

Another reason is that the four actors who play the Pevensies [Georgie Henley, Skander Keynes, Anna Popplewell and William Moseley] are quite brilliant [which marks a drastic change for Popplewell and Moseley, who were pretty wooden in the first film].

Written by Stiller, Justin Theroux and Mike Judge cohort Etan Cohen, the film opens with a brilliant conceit: The three main actors are introduced via a hilarious series of fake trailers for their latest movies, while Alpa Chino appears in an ad for Booty Sweat.

This is actor's first major film villain, miles away from the nasty Negan in The Walking Dead, and he's really given the time to shine with some brilliant scene - chewing one - lines, grinning from scene to scene.

For all of the versatility he's exhibited this year and last, for brilliant contribution to Wolf of Wall Street in giving it its theme song, for having lost 46 pounds to play Ron Woodruff, for starring in Focus Features» swan song, Dallas Buyers Club, for being the only reason that film got made — there seems to me no one more deserving of the accolade of Best Actor and I do believe McConaughey will take it, at last.

If Depp's entire performance is as consistently brilliant as the snippets shown in this trailer, Black Mass could be the film that reminds everyone he's one of the great actors of his generation.